The Rev. and Mrs. Henry Palmer with their six younger children at Withcote Hall, Near Oakham, Leicestershire
Date:
1838
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
52 x 46 inches (132.1 x 116.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower center: "J. Ferneley | 1838"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.288
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
family | daughters | boys | portrait | baby carriage | conversation piece | sons | stairs | perambulator | steps | girls | bassinet | donkey
Associated Places:
Withcote Hall | Leicestershire | England | Oakham | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Pictures by old masters : 11 December 1959, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, December 11, 1959, p. 24, Lot 165, Fiche B51 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 94-95, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, pp. 248-249, no. 269, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Major Guy Paget, Melton Mowbray of John Ferneley, 1782-1860 , Edgar Backus, Leicester, 1931, pp. 104, 136, no. 267, NJ18 F3845 P25 1931 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 153 (v.1), no. 291, pl. 81, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Mario Praz, Conversation Pieces : A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America, , Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University Park, 1971, p. 156, pl.308, ND1304 +P713 Oversize (YCBA)Alice Winchester, English Conversation Pieces from the Mellon Collection, Antiques, vol. 83, April 1963, p.446, NK1125 A3 v. 83 OVERSIZE (HAAS)